Chey’s Lounge

The night is so not young, yet I haven’t started typing anything with the intention of posting tonight. I did write some little things on a piece of printer paper, though, so that’s something. Doesn’t help me too much in this final stretch to midnight, I guess! No, it does a little. At least I have some ideas. One of the ideas is something I’ve been debating on writing about for a little while. Now that the time has come, idk if the moment is right. Maybe I’m just feeling lazy. It’s just about pasta that wasn’t garlicky enough to satiate what I had desired at the time. I did a lot to try to get it there, but it just didn’t happen. I wonder if I’ll write about it now or keep waiting til later. 

The first thing I wrote down on that beautiful 8.5” x 11” was, “Trying to get into a book, but it hasn’t been as easy as the last one I read. Maybe I just haven’t dedicated enough time to get into a flow. Speaking of dedicating time, I haven’t sat with my thoughts in the morning since the first try. I guess I should try again soon before I lose all the motivation to. I haven’t been that motivated lately. One thing I have been doing besides aimless scrolling is Sudoku. I must confess, I think the app/website I use is kinda cheating because it highlights some stuff and makes visualization so much easier. I do at least play using the hardest difficulty. Even if I were to concentrate completely and without interruption, I think it would still take at least 30 minutes to complete. Aka I couldn’t finish one before tomorrow at the time I’m typing this. 

Okay, I’m gonna say what I wanted to say, maybe not as well or as detailed as originally intended, but we shall see where this goes in the next 20 minutes. I haven’t cooked much recently. I do miss it. I did cook pasta with broccoli last week. It’s something I had been craving for a few weeks, but since I have not been cooking much, it took a sec to come to fruition. My dad would make this for me basically every time my mom went away. He’s a good cook, even his weeknight broccoli is something I’ve been striving to replicate and have failed to compare to. Now that I’m thinking about it, I wonder if it needed more salt… Oh well, can’t know for sure now. 

So what did I do? Well, here’s what I did! I will probably be bad and switch between different points of view, ie. first or second person, maybe third. I started with a vision. I wanted to start by whipping up a little garlic-infused olive oil. Heat up some whole cloves in oil until your heart tells you the time is right. Once your heart whispers that it’s time, take out the garlic and crush it in a mortar and pestle. Save for later. Now we need to heat up some smaller slices of garlic in that infused olive oil. I thought I used enough, but maybe not. After that’s looking good, I add steamed broccoli to the pan and give it a nice stir. Pasta is boiling during all of this, btw. Actually, it just finished and we are throwing some into the pan along with some pasta water and basically all the leftover infused olive oil. At this point, I added the cooked garlic I crushed into a paste too. All we need now is a little grated parmigiano reggiano. I may have missed something, but that’s what I did. Let me know your garlic tips and tricks, please. Thank you.